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Spatial Analysis, The Wisconsin Idea and the UW-System.

Barmore, Frank E.

Barmore, Frank E.

1998-06-21

Other Titles:The Use and Abuse of Dispersion Statistics

Citation:Barmore, Frank E. "Spatial Analysis, the Wisconsin Idea and the UW-System. The Use and Abuse of Dispersion Statistics." Reprinted in Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics, Volume IX, Number 1. Ann Arbor: Institute of Mathematical Geography, 1998. Persistent URL (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60261

Abstract: Dispersion statistics (the second moment of a distribution) from mathematical physics are adapted to geography for the description and analysis of distributions in a two-dimensional non-Euclidean space (the curved surface of the Earth). The University of Wisconsin System is used as an example. Also, it is again pointed out that the "ellipse of dispersion" is a misleading representation of dispersion statistics and its use should be discontinued.